bushvin

joined 2 years ago
 

Hi,

Couldn’t find anything related to the code you are writing, so I thought I’d address the elephant in the room: how is your code licensed? Can your code be reviewed?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The problem with AV s/w in my experience, is that they do not work very well, and hinder the system’s functioning, because they provide duplicate behaviour of existing solutions and compete with them directly.

In one instance I discovered McAfee to disable write access to /etc/{passwd,shadow,group} effectively disabling a user to change their password. While SELinux will properly handle that by limiting processes, instead of creating a process that would make sure those files aren’t modified by anyone.

People need to understand Linux comes pre-equipped with all the necessary tools and bolts to protect their systems. They just don’t all live in the same GUI, because of the real complexity involved with malware…